The man, identified as Dennis Fisher, 74, was making a cup of tea on the stove at a home in the 2700 block of Huntingdon Avenue in the Remington neighborhood on Sunday morning, according to fire department spokesman Ian Brennan. His flannel shirt caught fire from the stove and he was taken to the burn unit at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center with first- and second-degree burns on his hand, arm, shoulder and neck, Brennan said.

Fisher was pronounced dead on Tuesday shortly after 2 a.m. Brennan said the fire was out when first responders arrived.

The death is Baltimore's first fire fatality of the year. Fire deaths spiked last year to 21 from an all-time low of 12 in 2012.

Two females were transported to the hospital - one for smoke inhalation, the other for chest pain - caused by a two-alarm fire at an apartment complex on Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia Friday afternoon, Howard County fire and rescue officials said.

A 31-year-old man who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Baltimore after he pleaded guilty to possessing 5.9 grams of marijuana won an appeal Wednesday invalidating the plea — raising the possibility that he will be released.